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Roll back the years an take a trip down memory lane - Euro 96 starts tonight.

Okay so not quite but ITV will begin showing the tournament in its entirety from Monday, May 11, when hosts England take on Switzerland on ITV4.

The 16-team tournament created a host of iconic moments from Paul Gascoigne's goal and celebration against Scotland to Gareth Southgate's woe after missing in the penalty shootout loss to Germany.

ITV will begin showing the competition again from May today, with all 31 matches being broadcast on their Hub service.

In addition, ITV 4 will show all five of England's games from the tournament as well as the final which saw Germany beat the Czech Republic 2-1 after extra time.

Blackburn Rovers, who had finished seventh in defence of their 1995 Premiership title, had five players on show in the tournament, plus a couple of what might have beens and a few who would arrive at Ewood Park in the future.

Kevin Gallacher

The Rovers frontman was also in Craig Brown's squad for the tournament.

Had scored twice in 13 games for Rovers that season having missed part of it through injury.

He started the 0-0 draw against Holland but was an unused sub in the next two matches.

Billy McKinlay

The midfielder had joined Rovers in October 1995 and came off the bench for Scotland in the tournament opener.

He then started the remaining two fixtures, although he was substituted in both.

What could have been

Juventus' Zinedine Zidane in action Credit : Action Images

Rovers had been tracking Zinedine Zidane and Christophe Dugarry in the summer of 1995.

Both visited Brockhall but in the end the club decided against pursuing the pair.

Zidane, then at Bordeaux, joined Juventus after Euro 96 while Dugarry moved to AC Milan in the same summer.

The pair would win the World Cup two years later.

The ones that did arrive

On show in that tournament were a plethora of players who later did arrived at Ewood Park.

Swiss centre back Stephane Henchoz joined in 1997 and spent two years with the club before departing for Liverpool having made 70 appearances for Rovers.

Markus Babbel, who won the tournament with Germany, had a loan spell with Rovers in 2003-04 when he featured 25 times while Hakan Sukur, who was in the Turkey squad, had a short spell in East Lancashire in the 2002-03 campaign.

Robbie Fowler, in the England squad that summer, played three games for Rovers in 2008 with former Three Lions teammate Paul Ince having a short spell in charge in the same year.